Sometimes you want to show one piece of writing to someone — a letter to a friend, a reflection for a partner, a note for a therapist. slowbloom lets you share a single entry as a read-only link, without giving up the privacy of the rest of your journal.
How sharing works
You can turn any one entry into a read-only link. The person you send it to can open it in their browser and read just that entry. They don't need a slowbloom account, and they can't see anything else you've written or make changes.
Why the server still can't read it
Your entries are encrypted, so a link has to carry the key to unlock the one you're sharing. slowbloom puts that decryption key in the part of the link after the #, called the fragment. Browsers never send the fragment to the server, so the key travels straight to the recipient's browser and the server still only ever sees encrypted text.
Anyone with the link can read the entry. The link itself contains the key, so treat it like the contents of a private letter. Only share it with people you trust, and only through channels you trust.
Stopping a share
You can stop sharing an entry at any time. Once you do, the old link no longer works. If you'd shared something and changed your mind, turning off the link is the right move — though if someone already opened or saved the contents, you can't unsee it for them.
For the bigger picture on how slowbloom protects your writing, see Data and privacy.